Comparative Biology Quotes

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.